Summary
This chapter continued with the introduction to virtualization and Oracle VM. The chapter began by explaining more about what Oracle VM is. You cannot understand what Oracle VM is without also understanding what Xen and the Xen Hypervisor are. This chapter gave a brief introduction into those concepts and also briefly touched on Oracle’s support for virtualization and the open-source manner in which Xen is developed and supported.
The chapter concluded with an overview of the Oracle Template Library. This template library provides a way to download and deploy a complete virtualization environment quickly and easily. These templates are built using the Oracle JeOS Linux distribution. In addition, most of the templates include preinstalled ...